Wednesday Hodge Podge

Hosted by Joyce!

1. Something you learned from your father? My father was a gentle man..  He was quiet and  soft spoken,  and  got along with  everyone.. He was a peacemaker. My mom was  bit more brash and loud. I  take a lot  after her,  but I  remember how much  I appreciated my dad,   and I  try to soften my demeanor   to be more like him!

2. Do you like onions? Raw or cooked? How about onion rings? What's something you love to eat that calls for onions?   I love raw vidalias onion and will eat one  like an apple with  pintos and cornbread.  Not so with  any other onion! I love onions cooked. .. onions rings are one of my favorite food!  Yum!  I love onion  pie, I made that for my dad and husband..  they both love onions!  The pie has  lots of  Swiss and  spices and cream in which makes it pretty rich and yummy  for a special meal  with  a special beef or steak dish!

3. It's officially summer (in the Northern hemisphere)...your favorite and least favorite things about the season?   Favorite  isn't so important these days  but it used to mean, when I taught school "yayaya!!  schools out! "Since retirement  I sort of dread summer because of the heat and humidity here in the mid Atlantic.

4. When you think about the summers of your childhood what are two or three things that come to mind?  I loved the jingle of the ice cream truck  that came around once a week.   That was always a huge delight to us on the block! Freedom to roam the neighborhood and play from morning to dusk.  The farm fresh foods  mom would cook in summer. Being a farm girl and a great  country cook..  summer food was  the BEST!!

5.  A hot mess, the heat of the moment, beat the heat, if you can't stand the heat, catch heat, in a dead heat...choose a 'hot 'phrase and tell us how it applies to your life right now.  Today and all week we are trying to beat the heat. I really need to be walking  and exercising outside,  but the heat is too unbearable.  So  here I sit in air conditioning!

6. Insert your own random thought here. 

Tomorrow I will   go to the hospital at 5:30 am for  my doctor's first procedure of the day. I am having my 5th ERCP  since November... a lengthy endoscopy to check out how my gall bladder is doing.,  remove a stent and hopefully not  insert another one! Hopefully,  it will be the last.